Gas prices have doubled since Joe-Joe Biden was installed at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave NW, D.C.
This from thegatewaypundit.com.
Gas on Tuesday reached $4.13 per gallon which is still over the previous record all-time high pre-Joe-Joe.
Despite the record pain at the pump, Joe-Joe blocked oil drilling on millions of acres of US land on Monday.
The Daily Caller reported:
The [Joe-Joe regime] reversed a Trump-era policy Monday that massively expanded the area available for fossil fuel leasing even as gasoline prices remained near an all-time high.
The average price of gasoline nationwide increased to $4.13 per gallon on Tuesday, remaining near its all-time high, according to AAA data. Pump prices have surged throughout [Joe-Joe’s] first 15 months in office.
“Today’s decision ensures the NPR-A will be managed consistent with the 2013 [Integrated Activity Plan], while including certain more protective lease stipulations and operating procedures for threatened and endangered species … confirmed through consultation with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the National Marine Fisheries Service,” the BLM said in its announcement Monday.
And that is not all the Joe-Joe regime has done to raise prices at the pump.
The following from americansforprosperity.org.
– In November 2021, the EPA announced new regulations governing methane emissions from oil and gas production, transmission, storage, and distribution that would cost more than $1 billion a year.
– Last spring, Joe-Joe signed a resolution that overturned Trump administration reforms to EPA oil and gas rules. This resolution will worsen energy poverty, reestablish burdensome regulations, and have a disproportionate impact on small businesses.
– One of Joe-Joe’s first actions after stealing office was to halt new oil and gas leases on federal lands and waters, the regime has delayed decisions on these leases—a move resulting in higher energy costs for the most vulnerable consumers.
– The regime canceled the Keystone XL pipeline and suspended oil and gas leases in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and New Mexico (despite opposition from the Navajo Nation). It also resurrected the “Waters of the United States” rule, which would increase barriers to energy projects.
– The regime is pursuing new standards for particulate matter and ozone, likely tightening them to unachievable levels for much of the country and creating new barriers for energy project permits.
– Joe-Joe also has rescinded Endangered Species Act reforms, a move that will increase red tape and allow litigation to slow down energy projects.
– In April 2021, without the consent of Congress, Joe-Joe rejoined the Paris agreement, which will result in onerous new regulations that could raise energy costs.
– The regime has created several bodies within the White House charged with creating new policies to regulate energy. The people who run these councils are unelected and do not need Senate confirmation, but they have been given broad powers to come up with new executive actions—which do not need consent from Congress—to regulate U.S. energy production.
– One section of the recently enacted Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, supported by the regime would require every U.S. state to develop state carbon-reduction plans that must be approved by the U.S. Department of Transportation as well as be updated every four years.
– These plans are aimed at reducing driving all over the country—even for people in rural areas where public transportation is limited, and driving is the only option.
– The regime has failed to take adequate action on annual requirements and small refinery waivers for the Renewable Fuel Standard and in providing regulatory relief from this biofuel mandate due to economic hardship. His EPA has finalized a new rule regulating greenhouse gas emissions from cars and trucks. That single regulation could raise the average vehicle price by $1,000.
– This carbon pricing policy statement, issued by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission in April 2021, is a blanket endorsement of top-down policies that have been demonstrated to be costly, ineffective, regressive, and consistently rejected by the American people.
– The EPA has issued a final rule to phase out a common, inexpensive refrigerant. This policy is a de facto tax on air conditioning and refrigeration.
– In May 2021, the regime issued a sweeping executive order that mobilized federal agencies, including the Securities and Exchange Commission, to enforce mandates on businesses, insurers, retirement funds, and suppliers. These policies will stifle innovation critical to improving the environment and will increase costs for a wide variety of businesses.
– The regime has changed key inputs for economic and regulatory analysis, including raising the “social cost” of greenhouse gases. These policies will mask the true consumer cost of regulatory actions.
– The regime attempted to resurrect an aggressive version of the Clean Power Plan for power sector mandates called the Clean Electricity Standard.
– In the Fall 2021 Unified Agenda, the EPA stated their intention to propose what can be considered the Clean Power Plan 2.0. This policy would impose burdensome regulations but would have little or no environmental benefit.
– The EPA also has mandated that even facilities with reduced emissions must remain on the list of “major” sources, subjecting these facilities to permitting burdens and higher costs.
– The regime is considering potential restrictions on the export of crude oil that would increase, not decrease, energy prices.
– More than one-quarter of the regime-backed Build Back Better agenda is pulled directly from the “Green New Deal.” The Build Back Better agenda includes new taxes on natural gas and home heating. It also includes new taxes on petroleum and manufacturing.
– The Build Back Better agenda would spend taxpayer dollars to push utilities to adopt more costly, politically preferred forms of energy, a move that would reduce Americans’ energy choices.
– Finally, through the Civilian Climate Corps, Build Back Better would fund the salaries of tens of thousands of anti-energy activists who would perpetuate high energy costs by demanding new and costly federal regulations and legislation.
Unlike releasing oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, [the above listed] steps are not just a “drop in the ocean.”
Think of the above exhaustive list of dirty work as ammo for the next time any fool tries to explain to you how none of this is brain-dead Joe-Joe’s fault. Fire away with everything you’ve got.
The problems the democrat-communists have created, and will continue to create, have significantly impacted Americans’ ability to afford the energy products that fuel their lives and livelihoods.
This corrupt regime bent on destroying America is working overtime at top speed. How else could they have effected so much destruction in just fifteen months?
We the People must continue to respond to the democrat-communists’ every action. And we must increase our responses to an effective level.
May God and our hard work save America.
